What is a "Woke" Game

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the-pi-guy said:

So now we can talk about, people tend to like "DEI", because people are diverse. People want to make games that have diverse stories. So trans people want to write stories where they're included, and they want to buy stories where they're included.

And black people want to write stories and they want to buy stories where they're included.

And Indian people want to write stories and they want to buy stories where they're included.

And Korean people want to write stories and they want to buy stories where they're included.

And woman want to write stories and they want to buy stories where they're included.

And companies want to sell products, even companies that are the furthest thing from "woke" often want to try selling products to more people; so they make stories that sell to other groups of people. And they hire workers that want to make those stories and are hopefully able to make good versions of those stories. 

I think you're right about people wanting stories where they're included, but that's not how it works. Whether you read a book, watch a movie or play a game, the events aren't telling about you, but the story and representation is supposed to let you to experience the events. You weren't Ellen Ripley in USCSS Nostromo, but the film took you there. Reading Lord of the Rings takes you to Middle-Earth, and watching the movies does the same thing, but film lets you to experience the events of the story in a different way. When you play a game, the character is your avatar and you play with the character that either suits your playing style the best or is the most fun to watch. If you can feel included only by having an avatar that represents you as closely as possible, the problem isn't the avatar.

The developers are a whole different matter and I can understand this being the way how they feel they're being included in the game. This remonds me of Goldeneye on N64 where the developers used their own faces as faces for the game's enemies.